Decoherence in conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2020)170zbMATH Open1446.81035arXiv1911.07861OpenAlexW3008855456WikidataQ112154072 ScholiaQ112154072MaRDI QIDQ2188667FDOQ2188667

Adolfo del Campo, Tadashi Takayanagi

Publication date: 11 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Noise sources are ubiquitous in Nature and give rise to a description of quantum systems in terms of stochastic Hamiltonians. Decoherence dominates the noise-averaged dynamics and leads to dephasing and the decay of coherences in the eigenbasis of the fluctuating operator. For energy-diffusion processes stemming from fluctuations of the system Hamiltonian the characteristic decoherence time is shown to be proportional to the heat capacity. We analyze the decoherence dynamics of entangled CFTs and characterize the dynamics of the purity, and logarithmic negativity, that are shown to decay monotonically as a function of time. The converse is true for the quantum Renyi entropies. From the short-time asymptotics of the purity, the decoherence rate is identified and shown to be proportional to the central charge. The fixed point characterizing long times of evolution depends on the presence degeneracies in the energy spectrum. We show how information loss associated with decoherence can be attributed to its leakage to an auxiliary environment and discuss how gravity duals of decoherence dynamics in holographic CFTs looks like in AdS/CFT. We find that the inner horizon region of eternal AdS black hole is highly squeezed due to decoherence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07861

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondenceblack holes in string theoryquantum dissipative systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Quantum entropies (81P17)

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